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After your baby grows out of his infant car seat, you need to buy a bigger car seat, or a convertible car seat that turns into a booster. Children should be in a booster seat with a five point harness as long as they can be. With many booster seats, they just come with a five point harness until your child weighs 40 lbs and after that it is near impossible to find a booster seat with extended weight harness.

Go and watch this video and you will know why a five point harness is so important.
Did that shake you up? Yup, me too.
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The Britax Regent is a great car seat, it grows with your child from 12 months to 8 years. It is well known for its safety and how comfortable it is. It is also very expensive at $270.00. I don’t believe that children can only be safe if their parents have money to buy these expensive seats.
For someone like me, with twins, that is an expensive purchase.
Now more and more car seat makers are making five point harnesses in seats that go up more then 40 lbs. Cosco makes the Alpha Elite Apex Seat which is $129.00.
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It is for children from 22-65 lbs. It has a cup holder and is very comfortable. This is the one we are buying for our children.

I bleieve all car seat makers should be making their seats with extended five point harness system because seat belts can and do fail on impact. A child’s safety is never something to get cheap on.

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